4% of Life: Still standing between Two Shores

By Farès N.

4% OF LIFE - Still standing between Two Shores

A man. A stolen childhood. A life built against all odds.

Born in Senegal to a family of Lebanese origin, he grew up in the silence and violence of a father who forbade him to cry. At sixteen, he fled Dakar for France with a suitcase and a single challenge in mind - to prove his father wrong.

This moving autobiographical novel recounts an extraordinary journey: immigration, loneliness, hard-won degrees, businesses built and lost, love, and grief. And above all-the terrifying discovery that he has only 4% functioning kidneys left, condemned to dialysis, crying out in pain every night before going to bake bread at 4 a.m.

4% OF LIFE is a book for all those who suffer in silence. A book for all those who live with a visible or invisible disability. A book that says: we fall, but we can always get back up.

If you are looking for an authentic survival story, a testimony about domestic violence, disability and resilience - this book is for you.

Still standing. Despite everything.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQBVB31W
• ISBN13: 9798249880743
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"